Story

Here it is: the song behind our firstmusic video!This film has been a project of great passion and collaboration. Lou's brother, Ray Baldino, a master photographer/videographer, was the first point of inspiration when he suggested he would love to do a film project with BBC. The recording process of the "Stor Mo Chroi" (store-mo-CREE) song was already in the works, so it was a natural to back the movie.

Jim Salamone, of Cambridge Sound Studios, mixed and mastered the "Stor Mo Chroi" recording and immediately invited us to use the Newtown recording studio as a backdrop for the modern scenes. In February, Cheryl began gathering costumes and researching film locations.

A friend of the band suggested Cuttalossa Farm in Lumberville as an ideal location for the outdoor shots. Cuttalossa is the former home of the Pennsylvania impressionist painter, Daniel Garber. The present owners have spent 35 years cultivating the property into a living masterpiece. It's setting has a magical, verdant quality that evokes old Ireland. They were gracious and welcomed the film idea, so the April 15th date was set - no raindate! Fortunately, the weather cooperated fully, with just a few drops of rain to set the scene.

Other film locations included the Newtown historic district and the old Rushland train station.

The story is a fairy-tale fantasy of young love, set in both present and past. A mid-June 2012 release date is set for the film.

Story

We (Rose and Genna) wrote this song in 2008, riding in the back seat of Lou's station wagon, on the long ride home from the Swannanoa Gathering in Asheville, NC. Inspired by our week at music camp we decided we needed a song to tell Bridget's story. We had captured the emotion of her tale in the tune, "Burning Bridget Cleary", written for our first CD, but we needed to tell the story in words. It's a difficult story to tell, and somehow it never came out quite right when we related the story from the stage . . . A special "thank-you" to Terry Kane, who we called and harrassed several times that day to help us with the Irish language translation!

Lyrics

An Tusa 'Sí

Hey my love, ho my love, where have you been? Selling your goods in the County?

You have been gone this evening long, Oh my love, do not betray me!

Hey man, ho man, what do you think? That I have been foolin’ away?

I have been faithful and true, my love, your dutiful wife to stay.

Refrain

Hey my love, ho my love, step in the light, you are not looking so well,

Don’t be a messin’ with fairies me love; the devil will damn you to hell.

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